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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..The way I see it, any subsequent play that occurred based on the overturned ruling is (or should be) invalidated because it was in... -
Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..That's odd - that MO has worked for me for over 40 years now. All it needs is to set up the fiction such that it lets them roll up and...
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Lanefan reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Hopefully at the table. We all make errors; GMs are not infallible. One needs to foster a spirit of sincerity and co-operation. It is... -
Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..The problem with that is by the time that after-game discussion takes place you've already made the bad ruling and moved on...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Might not need a rules lawyer, though. @EzekielRaiden 's statement that the DM is always right is valid, but only to a point. Where...
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Lanefan reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Yes, sure. Improv theatre is an important part of D&D, always was. What you are doing wrong is pushing everything to extremes. It’s not...
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Lanefan reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It gets brought up as part of other discussions. Say DM authority. One side argues that the DMG gives the DM absolute authority, but...
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Lanefan reacted to FrogReaver's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
And this highlights the problem. You highlight a person calling his GM overall good with a single situation complained about as...
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Lanefan reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
You do realize this entirely writes off any history not backed by archeology, right? I mean, I'm not going to say there aren't problems...
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Lanefan reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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Really makes you wonder just how all those trad-leaning tables are managing to have any fun at all with all these terrible, social... -
Lanefan reacted to The Firebird's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
If you're going to be pedantic...then 1) multiple versions of the anecdote were referred to and 2) you don't need to do statistics on...
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Lanefan reacted to Enrahim's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Ok, then that is a risk I have accepted as quite simply impossible to fully eliminate as an engineer. It make sense to limit it up to a...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..They can be useful tools, sure; but that shouldn't prevent us from being able to swap out those tools for something better (analogy...
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Lanefan reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The problem is this writes off whole categories of social science as "not science" because all you can get are anecdotes. And sometimes...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Sometimes, in cases like this, deferring to the player who knows stuff can be a good approach. Horses are a common sight in fantasy...